Fort Caractacus is named after my favorite British warlord. He fought off the Roman Empire and then convinced the Emperor Claudius to let him go free by arguing, "I had horses, men and wealth, can I blamed for not wanting to lose it? If I were now being handed over as one who had surrendered immediately, neither my fortune nor your glory would have achieved brilliance."
@HappyBeezerStudios
8 ай бұрын
The quest has great ways to fail it. Like casting it next to the wizard and he'll be angry. Or not casting properly twice and the people get incredibly pissed.
@ypresbm
8 ай бұрын
I always read it as being named after Caractacus Potts from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He being a failed inventor after all
@iam3gion204
10 ай бұрын
I love this game so much. I found the empty town and never noticed there were invisible people there. I walked around for like 5 minutes and said “this is obviously a quest but I guess I start it somewhere else” Learning that they were just pretending to not be there is so funny to me
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
😂 that’s too good! Yeah I can only imagine how confusing it must’ve been!
@HappyBeezerStudios
5 ай бұрын
It might be a fetch quest, but it's well done, wrapped in an interesting story, and doesn't feel like a fetch quest at all.
@shiny1556
10 ай бұрын
Aleswell was the first settlement I found when I first played Oblivion and when I found out people were invisible I was worried for a little bit that the game was bugged. Never finished the quest though as I went on to do the main story and forgot about it lol
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
😂 I can imagine that being pretty confusing when coming across them for the first time!
@sarethattano9902
10 ай бұрын
Also after completing ”An unexpected voyage” choosing the correct dialogue options you can find Selene alive inside the imperial city prison.
@theodor222
10 ай бұрын
Hands down the best "hidden" mission is Goblin Trouble and that you get to see the settlement you saved, slowly starting to get bigger and bigger
@NegativeDumpster
10 ай бұрын
We must repeat, D-E-V-O, We must repeat; Okay, let's go! In terms of "unexpected" quests, I'd definitely list "Paranoia" as one of those. That's the one where resident paranoiac Glarthir ropes the player into helping him expose the so-called "conspiracy" of well-to-do people who supposedly have it in for him. What makes it truly unexpected, however, (and also pretty unique) is that Glarthir himself _approaches the player_ to start the quest, making it the only side quest (to my knowledge) where the quest-giver actively seeks out the player (without any prompting). The other quests on your list, as unexpected as they are, all require the player to go to them; "An Unexpected Voyage" is probably the only other quest that springs up from nowhere, but even then, the player has to sleep in the Bloated Float for the quest to activate. But Glarthir? He goes out of his way to track down the player whenever they're in Skingrad. You don't have to ask around town about him, or go into his house, or anything; simply *being in Skingrad at all, PERIOD,* is enough to get Glarthir to look for you. P.S. After giving it some more thought, I suppose you could also count "The Collector", "Joining the Thieves Guild", and "A Knife in the Dark" as quests that actively seek out the player, but those quests require the player to do _something_ first, whether it be finding and selling an Ayleid statue, getting arrested and going to jail, etc. Glarthir doesn't _need_ a logical reason to hunt down the player, he just does it for his own insane reasons.
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
I’m going to actually be doing a whole separate video for Paranoia! :) such an interesting and fun quest! I appreciate the suggestions too for a follow up video! :)
@pipzchan
10 ай бұрын
Another banger- cant wait to see you hit 2k
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! I hope you liked it! :) plenty more to come!
@multigamer856
10 ай бұрын
For me Umbacano questline (honestly forgot the quest names) is super unexpected and I didn't know about this one for a long time. As it is triggered by either selling Ayleid statue or showing the statue to Umbacano himself - I believe there is some kind of rumor going on in Imperial City about Umbacano searching for these statues, but I never found one with my first character, then randomly with my second character when randomly searching one Ayleid ruin not for any quest whatsoever, I stumbled upon one. And as I like collecting all the unique stuff, I didn't even think of selling the statue, thus not triggering the questline :D. Then thanks to one of the funny moments videos by another youtuber, I saw Umbacano talking gibberish from one of the quests (don't wanna spoil if someone didn't play it yet) and finally I have found out about this questline...
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
It’s a really good quest! I’ll likely have to include it in part 2!
@DetectiveJones
10 ай бұрын
Don't know if it fulls fits but I love the questline for the Anvil house! Scared the absolute hell out of me as a kid, even after I knew what would happen. Plus having that crazy basment was cool even if it was 90% winding hallway. It's got great atmosphere, a memorable twist and a fun little story all to go with a pretty great house.
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 күн бұрын
Indeed unexpected. Buying a house is something that seems natural, and here is a guy selling it cheaply. From a story perspective he claims he has to leave and that is why he is selling for so little. From a gameplay perspective it might just be the normal price with some flavour backstory added. But then there is a whole questline that happens *after* you buy the house. Not something you have to do to get the house, oh no, you can buy it straight away.
@oViZu-
10 ай бұрын
Zero Visibility was my first ever quest I did in Oblivion, glad to see it in this video again
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Cheers! It was a cool quest to experience for the first time! :)
@ozkilla7353
10 ай бұрын
Lol i know of all these quests
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
The only one I had never actually heard of before making this video was Zero Visibility!
@paddynorm
10 ай бұрын
This channel is the TKS mantis of oblivion
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
I appreciate it! :) I had to familiarize myself with his work but I liked what I watched!
@cecilymegan-.-4201
10 ай бұрын
Ooo thank you so much for making this video! I have been playing since 2012, and I can't wait to hop on tonight.
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
I’m glad you enjoyed it! :)
@Shushkin
10 ай бұрын
Interestingly enough, you can overhear npcs talking about a ghost town which is the invisibility fetch quest. That is how I was got a hold of it.
@buhbuhjaychampagne1706
10 ай бұрын
For Zero Visibility, I was walking around and suddenly the Orc gardener started talking. “What the hell?!?! Where is he?!?!”🤣 Great work on your videos!!!!🤘
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
😂 that’s too good! I appreciate the support!
@Mary_Beth_Reimer
10 ай бұрын
I think moving into your new house, & being awoken in the middle of the night by ghosts, was a bit of a surprise, lol
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
😂 absolutely! That is a really great one! I covered it in a recent video actually!
@Mary_Beth_Reimer
10 ай бұрын
@@ABardsBallad Well, since I literally just found your channel yesterday, I haven't seen it yet. I will certainly check it out! 😊
@brantnuttall
10 ай бұрын
7:11Aleswell that Ends well. And indeed it does!
@puliturchannel7225
10 ай бұрын
The one where player gets to go inside the painting was pretty awesome, and quite unexpected.
@HappyBeezerStudios
8 ай бұрын
The Staff of the Everscamp is perfect Sheogorath. it loos silly and mildly annoying, but turns out to be incredibly punishing.
@alexandervenugopal3721
10 ай бұрын
Love your videos man, keep it up! You just got yourself a subscriber aswell!
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the support! :) tons more of content to come!
@Randroth
7 ай бұрын
It is really funny to me that the Oblivion community seems to universally agree that An Unexpected Voyage is one of the most obscure and unknown sidequests quests in the game, because it was actually the first sidequest I've discovered in the entire game when I played Oblivion for the first time years ago.
@HappyBeezerStudios
8 ай бұрын
Ah yes, the Bloated Float, where Hieronimus Lex gets drunk after failing at catching the grey fox.
@drewgoin8849
2 ай бұрын
There is a gilded ship statue the player can steal during a Thieves Guild quest in "TES V: Skyrim". I wonder if it's a callback to the "golden galeon" mentioned during the first quest in this video?
@joetheman74
9 ай бұрын
Drop the framerate? I'm curious. I also notice that you have a lot of pop-in going on with grass, trees and bushes and such. Are you playing on a potato? A console? Besides the typical Oblivion instability the game should run quite well on any modern PC as long as you install the proper community made patches. It even runs well with heavy graphics mods on the right PC, except for the crashes of course.
@ABardsBallad
9 ай бұрын
Laptop, settings all on max, it’s an old game sure, but still puts up a good fight on a moderate gaming laptop (plus I have a bunch of other recording applications in the background)
@joetheman74
9 ай бұрын
@@ABardsBallad I'm surprised that your texture pop-in is as bad as it is. I have not played Oblivion in almost two years but I still have it installed on my gaming laptops windows drive. I booted up windows and gave it a run to be sure. It's a modded install with about 60+ mods. I'm not sure if one of my mods is doing anything for draw distance (I installed this about 4 years ago) but my texture pop-in is much further away from the player character then in your videos. As for framerate since I am not a content creator I didn't take recording software and other necessary content creation software into account. I can understand how that would cause a drop in fps.
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 күн бұрын
with any decently modern system (the last 10-15 years) there should be either GPU hardware encoding or enough free CPU cores to do the recording, or both. So that really shouldn't be an issue with Oblivion. And four NPCs standing around shouldn't do much either, that is much less than running through the imperial city.
@sinclair2469
10 ай бұрын
This makes me remember why oblivion is my favorite game I played :)
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
I’m glad to have been able to bring back some good memories!
@AzguardMike
10 ай бұрын
best mission for me was "Who Dunnit!?" for the Dark Brotherhood. I had a hard save before going in. The way you can manipulate the guests into killing one another. The sweet old lady defends you. The redguard soldier hating you and suspecting you a Tong assassin. Or playing the Dark Elf woman against the old lady, only for her to realise afterwards and freak out. Great mission.
@insylem
10 ай бұрын
Too bad you can't give the everscamp to Martin for the ritual
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Yeah that would’ve made it a lot easier that’s for sure 😂
@insylem
10 ай бұрын
@@ABardsBallad it is a daedric artifact. Martin did ask for one. I'm sure hed take it willingly. That would be halarious
@buckrodgers1162
9 ай бұрын
@@insylem, Naa. What's even more hilarious is using Mehrune's Razor. What better punishment is there for a Daedra out of control, than to sacrifice the artifact of said Daedra to stop it?
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 күн бұрын
Why do I feel like Sheogorath would be absolutely okay with that, since it's hilarious and smart.
@StathCurir
10 ай бұрын
Theres an unmarked quest in the shivering isles where you go around looking for skulls (or body parts, im not entirely sure) from which you can release a soul or souls from the Hill of Suicides
@shadowlynx4330
10 ай бұрын
Let’s go pavelow!!!
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Hope you enjoyed it! :)
@shadowlynx4330
10 ай бұрын
@@ABardsBallad I have played oblivion for so many years. And I love it when people give their own insights on the quests. Keep up the good work.
@ShishouDzukiZaManako
9 ай бұрын
you can clone the staff too dropping 1 will leave the scamps there granting you 1 that does nothing... but looks cool. iirc. i think they patched the ckull of corruption trick though so idk if you can still get a dupe off of the clone of your clone anymore in shivering isles.
@Matt-md5yt
10 ай бұрын
Been awhile since i did the invisible villagers one. Thanks for reminding me of it
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Glad you found the video helpful! It’s a fun and interesting one to go through!
@Matt-md5yt
10 ай бұрын
@ABardsBallad all three are good.
@brantnuttall
10 ай бұрын
The best thing about the scamps is that you can farm them for lots of ability increases.
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Very true! I saw an exploit that says you can potentially drop the staff in other caves before completing the quest but I haven’t looked into its legitimacy yet!
@brantnuttall
10 ай бұрын
I just farm them in her house without starting the quest. great for topping up for the x5's
@HappyBeezerStudios
8 ай бұрын
@@brantnuttallOblivion is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits
@brantnuttall
8 ай бұрын
@@HappyBeezerStudios Do you watch Spiffing too? lol
@sumpwa
5 ай бұрын
Zero Visibility is great to do early on because the hotel room dresser makes excellent early game safe storage.
@burge117
9 ай бұрын
Man Oblivion has so many amazing quests. ❤
@BrandonDenny-we1rw
7 ай бұрын
i reallllly miss this style of Bethesda games. this is what made me fall in love withs rpgs. this game was wild lol
@jasonsouthern5281
10 ай бұрын
Let’s go!!!
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Hope you enjoy this one! :)
@balloonedraccoon2503
6 ай бұрын
I was the 500th like 😊
@codymcgrath2.3bviews3secon7
10 ай бұрын
Zero visibility was one of the first quests I remember playing way back in 2006. I was totally lost because I didn’t know how to use the map or map markers. Found it trying to find Crowhaven. Gives me such great memories what a fun quest especially when you stumble randomly on invisible npcs
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
That’s a great first question to do! I can imagine it must’ve felt confusing at the beginning! 😂
@codymcgrath2.3bviews3secon7
10 ай бұрын
I would love to be able to play games cluelessly again
@popereptillianlord6174
10 ай бұрын
man the first ques feels like it was written by a 5 year old honestly. such awful dialogue and progression.
@ABardsBallad
10 ай бұрын
Yeah the structure is pretty simplified 😂 my hope is that they wanted to show that Bandits aren’t very intelligent but who really knows 😂
@multigamer856
10 ай бұрын
I disagree. I think the quest has unique progression though very silly, but funny dialogue imho.
@multigamer856
10 ай бұрын
Well, they are just really really dumb bandits :D
@that_deadeyegamer7920
10 ай бұрын
How'd you edit and still comment with a typo
@popereptillianlord6174
10 ай бұрын
@@that_deadeyegamer7920 oh god how dare i miss one single "t" 🤡🤡🤡🤡 im sorry it triggered you so much.....
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